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Patented July 12, 1887.

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H. P. MATHIS.

STUBBLE CUTTER.

(No Model.)

@WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I'IILLERY P. MATHIS, OF STOCKTON, GEORGIA.

'STUBBLE-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,417, dated July 12, 1887.

Application filed April 29, 1887. Serial No. 2.3",569. (No model.)

To aZl whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, HILLEEY P. llIATHIS, of Stockton, in the county of Clinch and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stubble Outters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has reference to the class of machines used for cutting rice or other stalks or stubble standing in the field, in which the cutting-roller is hollowed out annularly at its center to receive the straight cutter-blades extending transversely thereof.

The invention has for its object to so improve the stalk or stubble cutter that it will be simpler and stronger in construction and more effective in operation; and to this end the invention consists in certain novel features embodied in the construction of the cutter, as hereinafter fully described and then definitely claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved stubble-cutter, part being broken out to reveal the construction. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line a; 00, Fig. 1.

A designates the frame of the machine; 13, the tongue; 0, the seat, and E the guide-bearings in which the cutting-roller F is journaled.

G designates a fork for raising the bent stalks and guiding them to the cutting-roller.

The diverging prongs of the fork G are curved downwardly and forwardly, as shown, and are formed at their rear junction with a horizontal eye, H, which is secured to the under side of a front crossbeam, I, of the frame of the machine by means of a bolt, J, passed upward through the same. The fork is steadied laterally by downwardly and inwardly converging rods K, suitably attached at their outer ends to the side beams of the frame A, and formed with eyes at their inner ends,which embrace the two prongs of the fork G, respectively.

The body of the cutting-roller F is formed with a central annular concave groove, L, and and at either side of said groove with drums M, having an annularly convex surface, to more closely fit and compress the sloping sides of the ridge the stalks or stubble on the crest of which are to be cut.

Ordinary straight cutter-blades, N, are arranged across the central concave groove, L, and connect the inner ends of the drums M, so as to out the stalks or stubble on the ridge, which are more effectively cut, owing to their roots being firmly held in place while the convex drums M are rolling along the sides of the ridge and the concave groove along the top thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is p In a stalk or stubble cutter, the cuttingroller formed with a central annular concave groove and convex drums at the sides of said groove, and having cutter-blades extending across the central groove and connecting the inner ends of the drums, substantially as shown and described.

HILLERY P. MATHIS.

\Vitnesses:

MosEs TOMLINSON, JAMES R. ALLEN. 

